: I was sitting at work, at a window which commands a view of the head of the loch, and of the moutains on the oppo site side. It was then between four and five in the afternoon; the sun was bright, and the weather as fine as possible. The tide was out, and, as usual, many groups of children were busied in collecting shells and sea weed. Among them were my two friends. They seemed in gayer spirits than I had yet seen them they strolled on till they came to a little bridge which spans a rivulet at the head of the loch. I saw them lean over the parapet to watch the gurgling brook beneath. Then they turned to survey the high mountains above them; and after a while, they directed their steps to the base of one of them. I saw them gradually mount the green slope, turning every now and then to gaze at the scene below, until I could but indistinctly discern their figures, amidst the shadows which were beginning to spread over the valley and the lower parts of the mountain. I knew that the mountain which they were ascending was not often tried either by natives or by strangers, for it was boggy and pathless. Anxious to know how the young people would manage to pick their way, and whether they would turn back, I took my glass, and by its means obtained once more a perfect view of them. They appeared to be looking carefully to their steps; sometimes seemingly at a loss how to proceed, sometimes slipping from one dry place to another, and sometimes, as I thought, over their shoes in mud or water. At length they reached dry ground, and the young lady threw down her parasol, and prepared to seat herself on the grass; but her brother pointing to the rocks which were just above them, she took up her parasol and proceeded. They reached the rocks, and the lady sunk down evidently fatigued but he still looked up, and did not accept the offered seat beside her. I saw him look at his watch, and then spring away among the rocks, his sister kissing her hand to him. : The richest glow of the evening's sun was upon the mountain's brow: light crimson clouds were floating, as it seemed to me, just over the head of the youth, as he mounted higher and higher -springing from one point to another. I saw his slight form on the very ridge, though lessened almost to a point by I the distance, yet conspicuous by its motion, and by the relief of the glowing sky behind. He disappeared. I looked for his sister; she was still seated on her sunny seat, while all below was wrapped in a deep grey shadow. laid down my glass, and resumed my work for a while. I looked again: she was still there, and alone-but the sunlight was gone! I thought she looked forlorn; and I wished her brother would return to her. Again the sun burst forth on the mountain-top. I saw the lady start from her seat, and turn round. An eagle had sprung from among the rocks: she was watching its flight-n ascended into the blue sky, and was lost to sight. She sauntered a few steps on one side of her seat, then on the other, and looked around her. 'I wish her brother would return to her,' thought I again. She shaded her eyes with her hand, and looked up: but vainly! The shadows had crept apace up the mountain side: her seat was no longer sunny, but she sat down again. I had by this time become, I knew not why, rather nervous: my hand shook so, that I could not fix the glass. I laid it down, and went to take a turn in my garden. I came back presently to the window, and once more turned my glass in the direction of the mountain. The seat was vacant. I saw something white fluttering in the breeze. By intently gazing, I made out that the lady was standing on a point of the rock lower down, and more conspicuous than that on which they had been seated. She had tied her handkerchief to her para. sol, and was waving it, no doubt, as a signal to her brother. My heart turned sick, and I could see no more. I looked at my watch, and found that it was nearly three hours since they had begun their ascent. * * At At that moment some one rushed past me. It was the young lady-running, or attempting to run, but with faltering and unequal steps. I followed her. the first of the flight of steps before the inn, she stumbled and fell. She was trembling and sobbing violently; whether from breathlessness or agony I could not tell. I raised her, and assisted her to mount the steps. 66 My brother! my brother!" she exclaimed incessantly. I could get no words but these from her. No time was to be lost. I sat down beside her, and took both her hands; and, speaking as calmly as I could, said, Compose yourself, and tell us what we must do. Have you missed your brother, or has any accident befallen him before your eyes?' 'He is on the mountain there! He left me and did not come back. He said he should not be gone twenty minutes.' 'Now I know all,' replied I. 'I will take some people from the inn with lights, and we will find him; you must stay and compose yourself and be patient: he has only missed his way.' My family!' said she, I have none many of us once, but I am the last!' 'But you have friends who will come to you?' 'Yes; I have a grandfather-he lives in Hampshire-he is very old, but he will come to me if he still lives; if She insisted upon going too; and de--they are all gone now-there were clared that this was necessary, in order to point out the track which her brother had taken. I explained to her how I had watched their progress, and was therefore able to direct their search. But she was resolute in her determination to go; and finding her to be so, I gave up my intention of accompanying the party, believing that I should only retard their progress. In a few minutes the landlord and two of his men were ready with lanterns, ropes, and poles. It was a fearful sight; and it was with sickening anxiety that we saw the party set off, knowing how long it must be before they conld return, to put an end to our uncertainty. I arranged with the landlady, that in case of any fatal accident having happened, the young lady should be brought to my house, where she would be in greater quiet and retirement than amid the bustle of an inn. I returned to my cottage to have the spare chamber made ready for the guest whom I dreaded to receive. This done, I returned to the inn, to await the arrival of the party. It was as we feared he was found lying at the bottom of the rock, no more than ten feet high-but lifeless. His neck had been dislocated by the fall. There were no external bruises-no signs of any struggle—nothing painful in his appearance. I cannot relate every circumstance of that dreadful night. I thought she was gone too: she was brought in insensible, and remained so for hours. She was taken immediately to my house, and put to bed. The body of her brother was also carried there, for I knew she would not be separated from it. I sat beside her, watching her faint breathing, anxious for some sign of returning consciousness, but dreading the agony which must attend it. not 'He will come,' said I; 'I will write to him directly.' I wrote to her grandfather; and in the evening she gave me, in a few words, her family history. She was indeed the last of her family; her mother had died a few weeks before, after a lingering illness; and the sole surviving brother and sister had been prevailed on to take this tour, to recruit their strength and spirits, after their long watching and anxiety. It is not my intention to relate what took place during the following week. The funeral, conducted in a way so repugnant, from its haste, to the feelings of those who have been accustomed to a different performance of the rite; the exertions which the mourner compelled herself to make; the variations in her state of mind; my own deep interest in her trial; the sincere sympathy of our few and humble neighbours;-all these things must remain untold, or I should lose all command of my pen. Her grandfather arrived on the earliest possible day. Nothing could be more tender than his kindness to his charge; though he was, perhaps, too far advanced in this life, and too near another, to feel the pressure of this kind of sorrow, as a younger or weaker mind would have done. A few days before she left me, a gentleman arrived at the inn, and came immediately to my cottage. She introduced him to me as a friend.' No one said what kind of a friend he was, but I could entertain no doubt that he was one who would supply the place of her brother to her. They quitted the place together, and many a sympathising heart did they leave behind them-by many an anxious wish and prayer were they followed; the last promise required from me was, that I would see that the grave of her brother was respected. What a pang did it cost her to leave that grave! I heard tidings of her three times afterwards; her letters pleased me; they testified a deep, but not a selfish or corroding grief-a power of exertion, and a disposition to hope and be cheerful. The last letter I received from her arrived more than five years ago; she had taken the name which I conjectured would in time be her's, She had lost her grandfather, but the time was past when his departure could occasion much grief. She was then going abroad with her husband for an indefinite period of time. If they were spared to return to their native country, they purposed visiting my little dwelling once more, to gaze with softened emotions. on scenes sadly endeared to them, and to mingle their tears once more over a brother's grave. Perhaps that day may yet arrive. THE TOOTH ACHE. A DREAM. (For the Casket.) "I have had a most rare vision, I have had a dream-past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was-there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had-but man is but a patch'd fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongne to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." In order to spare the reader the fatigue and trouble of reading how my dream came over me like a shadow,' when was under the powerful influence of the drowsy god,' and other equally common-place metaphors and edifying illustrations, I shall confine myself to plain matter of fact, and simply state, that I went to bed, fell asleep, and dreamed-what, my dream shall tes tify First, I fancied that a quarrelsome disposition having, for some time past, manifested itself among those occupants of my mouth-the teeth-was just breaking out into open war. Those, whose proper office it was to convey the food to the grinders, complained that the latter would never do any work but such as they, the complainants, prepared for them; which was met by a countercharge from the defendants, accusing the other contending party with idleness and insult, inasmuch as they never finished any work they took in hand, but left it to be completed by the aforesaid grinders; and further, that they, wilfully and maliciously, and not having the fear of God before their eyes, (upon this, one saucy canine tooth called out that for his part he never had possessed any,) had dared to charge them, the complainants in this case, with a deficiency of industry and activity. No sooner was this recrimination ended, than it seemed as if both parties had agreed to settle the dispute per force; for each tooth shook in its socket, and chattered as it were with rage; tremendous blows seemed to be given and received on both sides; the gums began to smart, and the jaw-bone to ache most grievously; when one of the belligerents cried loudly for quarter. In an instant the noise was hushed, and the bustle stilled, when my ideas became confused, and I felt myself stretched on the ground. When I came to myself, there I lay sure enough, and fixed there like Gulliver in Lilliput, by almost innumerable ropes and stakes; indeed, I was so securely fastened, that I could not move even the end of my little finger. While I was pondering within myself what these things should mean,' I found myself surrounded by an immense multitude of the most extraordinary looking beings that I had ever seen, and probably that I ever shall see. I, at first, thought that I had certainly fallen into the hands of the Lilliputians, but was soon convinced of the contrary; for, as they came near, I perceived that, although their height did not exceed six inches, they had large horns on their heads, and none of them had but one eye, which was placed in the middle of the forehead: when I discovered that they had brought with them hammers and tongs, and above all a pair of bellows, which took four of them to carry. I began to calculate upon the possibility of their being the descendants of the Cyclops of old, but the noise they made prevented me from bringing my cogitations to any thing like a satisfactory conclusion. They came, in appearance, as near as possible to those nameless shapes, which our caricaturists have represented as being engaged in tormenting us poor mortals, in the shape of blue devils,'' headache,' and other ills and evils attendant upon our earthly pilgrimage.' I did not understand their language, but by their movements, I soon discovered that they were about to commence some operations upon one of my hollow teeth. They began by bringing up to my mouth a piece of wood, notched at both ends, which, in spite of all my resistance, they fixed upon the front teeth of my upper and lower jaws, so as to keep my mouth immoveably open; then they beganfirst, they cleaued out the hollow with their crow-bars; then, put in something which looked like coal, and setting it on fire, began blowing with the bellows, so that I roared with pain loud enough to frighten them; for they were, in an instant after, tumbling down the ladder by which they had mounted to my face, like so many mice in retreat from their feline enemy; but they were soon at it again, and with long levers were endeavouring to force from its roots the devoted piece of bone, as if they had determined that it should come out at all events. The pain forced me to another exclamation; when in an instant they all vanished; and in came my friend Joe, who soon released me from my confincment, and told me that the 'little devils' had played up such tricks' with my tooth, that 'out' it must needs come. He offered to conduct me to a barber of his acquaintance, who, he assured me, was a very 'dabster' at tooth drawing; I submitted to his guidance, and found myself, scarcely knowing how, seated in the shop surrounded with soap-suds and razors, and trophies of their proprietor's science as a dentist.' Joe's barber was soon at work; he seized a lancet, opened my mouth, and began cutting away, as if he thought I had no feeling whatever; then he produced a corkscrew-looking machine, which he called the instrument,' and fixing it on the tooth, began tugging away, as a carpenter would at an old nail, till at length one of the 'strong holds' was loosened; when, offering some water in a dirty glass, he bade me wash my mouth, adding, in a tone which gave the lie to the import of his words, 'I shall not hurt you much next pull.' Again he fixed 'his instrument,' and as he wrenched the tooth from its place, put me to so much pain, that I awoke. My dream was out -I had got the TOOTH-ACHE. R. J. Mineral Waters. No. II. BUXTON, BRISTOL, AND MATLOCK WATERS. (Continued) The Buxton waters are the second in degree of heat among those of this island. The water of St. Anne's well is so pure, that when a gallon of the water was evaporated, the sediment was only fifteen grains; of which 1 grains were sea salt, 2 selenite, and 10 carbonate of lime, rendered soluble by an excess of carbonic acid. The specific gravity of this water is precisely equal to that of rain water, when their temperatures are the same: but when fresh taken from the spring, it is four grains in each pint lighter. The temperature of the bath is about 82 degrees. The water of St. Anne's well contains about 1-64th part of its bulk of azotic gas, in which its ffiecacy may in part reside, and which is quickly dissipated by exposure to the atmospheric air. This water is alterative, and not evacuant; about a pint in the forenoon is first taken, and the quantity gradually increased. The cooler the weather, the hotter and more medicinal is the water. It increases the vital heat, is useful in the gout, rheumatism, convulsive asthma, and other nervous complaints, indigestion, loss of appetite from intemperance, contractions of the tendons, urinary diseases, and defective catamenia. Its temperature is the lowest at which the cold bath has been used. Bristol waters.-As the Bath waters are proper where the secretions are defective, so the Bristol water is of service when in excess. The Bath water warms, the Bristol cools. Bath water relieves the stomach and intes tines ; the Bristol the lungs, kidneys, and bladder. It issues from a limestone rock. By the experiments of Dr. B. Higgins, a Winchester gallon of this water con |